Jacket for tanks.



W. J. KELLS.

JACKET FOR TANKS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1912.

1 ,07 1 ,557, Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTCE.

WILLIAM J. KELLS, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

JACKET FOR TANKS.

To all ID/@0772, it may concern Be it known that I, VILLIAM J. KnLLs, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in thecounty of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new andImproved Jacket for Tanks, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are:To provide a temporary cover or jacket for tanks or similar articles,and more particularly for the exposed gas-tanks commonly used inconnection with automobiles, for supplying the head-lights thereof; toprovide a jacket or cover of the character mentioned, arranged to bereadily and quickly disposed in operative position; and to provide ajacket arranged to avoid interference with the tank-anchoring deviceswith which automobiles are ordinarily supplied.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of ref erence indicatecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is apictorial view, showing in its service relation a gas-tank havingapplied thereto a cover or jacket constructed and arranged in accordancewith the pres ent invention; Fig. 2 is an end view of the tank referredto, the jacket therefor and tank-anchoring device, the side bar and running board of an automobile being shown in section; and Fig. 3 is adetail view in perspective, of a cover or jacket constructed inaccordance with the present invention.

While the herein-described jacket is adapted for use in conjunction withany exposed receptacle, I have shown the same as forming a protectingcover for a cylindrical tank of the type known as the Presto gas tank,used as a reservoir for gas employed for illuminating the head orsearch-lights of the automobile whereon the tank is carried.

The tank 8, as usually employed, is held in the-angle between the sidebar 9 and the running board 10 of an automobile, by means of straps 11.The straps 11 are hinged upon brackets 12, and are provided with ends 13slotted to pass a swing-bolt 14-. The bolt 14 is hinged to a plate 15,and is provided with a wing nut 16, the heads whereof each rest upon anend 13 of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 30, 1912.

Patented Aug. 26,1913. Serial No. 723,188.

strap 11 to force the same downward when the nuts are manipulated.

The jacket 17 is constructed from a sheet of spring metal set to adiameter less than the diameter of the tank.

WVhen employing the jacket 17, the same is expanded sufficiently, and isthen passed over the tank 8. The spring of the metal from which thejacket is constructed closes the same tightly upon the tank, andthereafter during service, forms to all intents and purposes, a skin orcover for the tank. The longitudinal edges 18 of the jacket 17 arecurled as shown in the drawings, while the forward end 19 of the jacketis slightly contracted or domed to conform to the forward end of thetank 8. The jacket 17, as seen best in Fig. 2 of the drawings, does notcompletely cover the tank 8, but extends thereabout to conceal theportion of the tank not otherwise concealed by the structure of theautomobile; or, in other words, the jacket 17 extends somewhat more thanhalf about the tank, so that the spring of the metal of the jacketclasps the tank. When now the tank 8 thus covered is installed inposition, the straps 11 are lowered over and in contact with the jacket17. When the straps 11 are clamped rigidly in position by manipulatingthe bolt 14 and nut 16, the jacket 17, as well as the tank 8, is heldfirmly in service position.

It is obvious that the jacket 17 serves a valuable purpose. Under usualconditions, the supply of the gas in the tanks 8, to operators ofautomobiles, has the disagreeable feature that the tanks, of necessity,are delivered without reference to condition or appearance. This resultsoften in producing the incongruous appearance of a hand somely burnishedor fitted automobile having on the running board and in a conspicuouslocation, a tank which is unkempt or dingy in appearance.

WVhen employing the jacket 17 disclosed in the present application, thisis avoided, for, as the jacket 17 would form a part of the equipment ofan automobile, the same would receive equal attention to the rest of theequipment. WVhen thus supplied, the appearance of the automobile wouldbe in no way marred by the condition or appearance of the tank 8furnished with the gassupply.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters In testimony wherecf I havesigned my Patent name to this specification in the presence of As anarticle of manufacture, a resilient two subscribing Witnesses.

sheet metal segmental jacket to cover a frag- WILLIAM J. KELLS.

mental portion of a tank, said jacket being Vitnesses:

normally set to a curve having a smaller E. F. MURDOOK,

diameter than said tank. PHILIP D. ROLLHAUs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

